{"id":1680618,"date":"2022-10-09T14:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680618"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:50:35","slug":"az-gov-candidate-kari-lake-promises-to-declare-an-invasion-on-the-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/az-gov-candidate-kari-lake-promises-to-declare-an-invasion-on-the-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"AZ Gov. Candidate Kari Lake Promises To Declare An \u2018Invasion\u2019 On The Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faz-gov-candidate-kari-lake-promises-to-declare-an-invasion-on-the-southern-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake reiterated her promise to declare the border crisis an \u201cinvasion\u201d if elected.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on CBS\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/arizona-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-says-we-have-a-crisis-on-our-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Face the Nation<\/a>\u201d Sunday, Lake said that the influx of illegal aliens crossing the border and the sheer amount of deadly fentanyl being trafficked across warrants such a categorization. As such, Lake said she would use her authority to recruit help from other states to help secure the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]f you know the Constitution, you know that Article 4, Section 4 calls for the federal government to protect us from invasion, and under Joe Biden\u2019s lack of leadership, we just aren\u2019t seeing that,\u201d Lake said. \u201cAnd we have an invasion at our border, the cartels, these narco-terrorist groups have operational control. And they\u2019re using Arizona to smuggle people, to traffic children and to traffic the most dangerous drug we\u2019ve ever seen, fentanyl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so we\u2019re going to invoke our Article One, Section 10\u2013 authority to take care of our own border and protect our own border,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s right there in black and white in the Constitution. And we meet all three criteria, we have an invasion, our people are in imminent danger, and time is of the essence. There\u2019s no time for delay. So we\u2019re going to have other states offer help. I\u2019ve already got a couple other governors who are willing to help out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/article-4\/section-4\/#:~:text=Section%204%20Government,be%20convened)%20against%20domestic%20Violence.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 4, Section 4<\/a> of the Constitution says that the federal government \u201cshall protect each of them against Invasion.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/article-1\/section-10\/clause-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 1, Section 10<\/a>, meanwhile, prohibits individual states from entering \u201cinto any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or [engaging] in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karilake.com\/border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issues page<\/a> on her campaign website, Lake promises to create a compact with other border states to declare an invasion along the southern border and establish their right to secure it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[M]ake no mistake: with nearly two million illegal immigrant apprehensions this past year and another estimated 400,000 that evaded border patrol agents, courtesy of violent international drug cartels operating inside northern Mexico, this is an invasion,\u201d the page reads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-counties-officially-make-emergency-declaration-of-invasion-on-southern-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four counties<\/a> along the border in Texas\u2013 Kinney, Goliad, Terrell, and Uvalde Counties\u2013 have already declared an invasion at the border, as The Daily Wire reported. Around the same time, an NPR\/Ipsos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-majority-of-americans-say-invasion-happening-at-southern-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> found that a majority of Americans, 53%, believed that the border crisis amounting to an \u201cinvasion\u201d was \u201csomewhat true\u201d or \u201ccompletely true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake reiterated her promise to declare the border crisis an \u201cinvasion\u201d if elected. Appearing on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d Sunday, Lake said that the influx of illegal aliens crossing the border and the sheer amount of deadly fentanyl being trafficked across warrants such a categorization. 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